Cops terrorise riot-hit areas

Police are questioning the injured who have registered medico-legal cases, arresting Muslims who guarded a temple and detaining men randomly IT HAS been more than two weeks since Delhi witnessed gruesome riots which have left 53 people dead. The violence which broke out on the evening of 24 February and went on till 27th has […]

Heroes in the time of hate

Amidst the communal violence that ensued in North East Delhi, here are some stories that prove humanity still trumps hate in these terrible times AS NORTH East Delhi witnessed the worst riots the Capital has seen since 1984, many lives were lost, houses were burnt down and families were shattered. Amidst all this, people still […]

Surviving hate

The overwhelming sentiment in the riot-hit areas is a feeling of being wronged by the state. Yet communal harmony survives, holding out hope for the future AS THE dead bodies of the victims of the communal clashes in North East Delhi arrived, the family members became inconsolable. Theirs is not a cry of grief but […]

‘They want us to say we burnt our own masjid’

The family of Mohammed Danish claims he was detained for over four days without food or access to a toilet. He was then shifted to a juvenile centre EARLIER THIS week, we received a lead that a 17-year-old boy, Mohammad Danish, had been missing in North East Delhi since February 24. The violence in the […]

Venom of communal hatred spares none

Molested, beaten and in shock, the mothers and minors of North East Delhi relive the day everything changed AL HIND hospital has been inundated with victims of the riots which engulfed North East Delhi from the evening of February 23 to the 27th. In these five hellish days, the hospital in the Muslim-dominated area also […]

‘Please let us give our board exams’

ALONG WITH the destruction of schools, the riots also affected those students who were going to appear for their 10th and 12th Board exams. We met many of those, and their only request was that the government takes cognisance of their situation, delay the exams and provide them with the much-needed course books destroyed in […]

Lessons in inhumanity

What do schools have to do with religion, ask the students of institutions which were deliberately targeted by mobs and burnt down to the ground MEENAKSHI HAS soot on her face from looking through the remains of what was once her home. The 12-year-old looks despondent when we meet her at the school where she […]

Police abdicated responsibility

Former commissioners of police express their disappointment in the way riots in Delhi were handled. They stop short of calling it ‘deliberate’ but surely ‘avoidable’ had the cops performed their duty LANES IN riot-affected North East Delhi look war-torn, nothing but half-burnt houses and mangled automobiles remain on the streets, the devastation staring you in […]